kwin/renderloop.cpp
Vlad Zahorodnii b8a70e62d5 Introduce RenderLoop
At the moment, our frame scheduling infrastructure is still heavily
based on Xinerama-style rendering. Specifically, we assume that painting
is driven by a single timer, etc.

This change introduces a new type - RenderLoop. Its main purpose is to
drive compositing on a specific output, or in case of X11, on the
overlay window.

With RenderLoop, compositing is synchronized to vblank events. It
exposes the last and the next estimated presentation timestamp. The
expected presentation timestamp can be used by effects to ensure that
animations are synchronized with the upcoming vblank event.

On Wayland, every outputs has its own render loop. On X11, per screen
rendering is not possible, therefore the platform exposes the render
loop for the overlay window. Ideally, the Scene has to expose the
RenderLoop, but as the first step towards better compositing scheduling
it's good as is for the time being.

The RenderLoop tries to minimize the latency by delaying compositing as
close as possible to the next vblank event. One tricky thing about it is
that if compositing is too close to the next vblank event, animations
may become a little bit choppy. However, increasing the latency reduces
the choppiness.

Given that, there is no any "silver bullet" solution for the choppiness
issue, a new option has been added in the Compositing KCM to specify the
amount of latency. By default, it's "Medium," but if a user is not
satisfied with the upstream default, they can tweak it.
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/*
SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2020 Vlad Zahorodnii <vlad.zahorodnii@kde.org>
SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-or-later
*/
#include "renderloop.h"
#include "options.h"
#include "renderloop_p.h"
#include "utils.h"
namespace KWin
{
template <typename T>
T alignTimestamp(const T &timestamp, const T &alignment)
{
return timestamp + ((alignment - (timestamp % alignment)) % alignment);
}
RenderLoopPrivate *RenderLoopPrivate::get(RenderLoop *loop)
{
return loop->d.data();
}
RenderLoopPrivate::RenderLoopPrivate(RenderLoop *q)
: q(q)
{
compositeTimer.setSingleShot(true);
QObject::connect(&compositeTimer, &QTimer::timeout, q, [this]() { dispatch(); });
}
void RenderLoopPrivate::scheduleRepaint()
{
if (compositeTimer.isActive()) {
return;
}
const std::chrono::nanoseconds currentTime(std::chrono::steady_clock::now().time_since_epoch());
const std::chrono::nanoseconds vblankInterval(1'000'000'000'000ull / refreshRate);
// Estimate when the next presentation will occur. Note that this is a prediction.
nextPresentationTimestamp = lastPresentationTimestamp
+ alignTimestamp(currentTime - lastPresentationTimestamp, vblankInterval);
// Estimate when it's a good time to perform the next compositing cycle.
const std::chrono::nanoseconds safetyMargin = std::chrono::milliseconds(3);
std::chrono::nanoseconds renderTime;
switch (options->latencyPolicy()) {
case LatencyExteremelyLow:
renderTime = std::chrono::nanoseconds(long(vblankInterval.count() * 0.1));
break;
case LatencyLow:
renderTime = std::chrono::nanoseconds(long(vblankInterval.count() * 0.25));
break;
case LatencyMedium:
renderTime = std::chrono::nanoseconds(long(vblankInterval.count() * 0.5));
break;
case LatencyHigh:
renderTime = std::chrono::nanoseconds(long(vblankInterval.count() * 0.75));
break;
case LatencyExtremelyHigh:
renderTime = std::chrono::nanoseconds(long(vblankInterval.count() * 0.9));
break;
}
std::chrono::nanoseconds nextRenderTimestamp = nextPresentationTimestamp - renderTime - safetyMargin;
// If we can't render the frame before the deadline, start compositing immediately.
if (nextRenderTimestamp < currentTime) {
nextRenderTimestamp = currentTime;
}
const std::chrono::nanoseconds waitInterval = nextRenderTimestamp - currentTime;
compositeTimer.start(std::chrono::duration_cast<std::chrono::milliseconds>(waitInterval));
}
void RenderLoopPrivate::delayScheduleRepaint()
{
pendingReschedule = true;
}
void RenderLoopPrivate::maybeScheduleRepaint()
{
if (pendingReschedule) {
scheduleRepaint();
pendingReschedule = false;
}
}
void RenderLoopPrivate::notifyFrameCompleted(std::chrono::nanoseconds timestamp)
{
Q_ASSERT(pendingFrameCount > 0);
pendingFrameCount--;
if (lastPresentationTimestamp <= timestamp) {
lastPresentationTimestamp = timestamp;
} else {
qCWarning(KWIN_CORE, "Got invalid presentation timestamp: %ld (current %ld)",
timestamp.count(), lastPresentationTimestamp.count());
lastPresentationTimestamp = std::chrono::steady_clock::now().time_since_epoch();
}
if (!inhibitCount) {
maybeScheduleRepaint();
}
emit q->framePresented(q, timestamp);
}
void RenderLoopPrivate::dispatch()
{
// On X11, we want to ignore repaints that are scheduled by windows right before
// the Compositor starts repainting.
pendingRepaint = true;
emit q->frameRequested(q);
// The Compositor may decide to not repaint when the frameRequested() signal is
// emitted, in which case the pending repaint flag has to be reset manually.
pendingRepaint = false;
}
void RenderLoopPrivate::invalidate()
{
pendingReschedule = false;
pendingFrameCount = 0;
compositeTimer.stop();
}
RenderLoop::RenderLoop(QObject *parent)
: QObject(parent)
, d(new RenderLoopPrivate(this))
{
}
RenderLoop::~RenderLoop()
{
}
void RenderLoop::inhibit()
{
d->inhibitCount++;
if (d->inhibitCount == 1) {
d->compositeTimer.stop();
}
}
void RenderLoop::uninhibit()
{
Q_ASSERT(d->inhibitCount > 0);
d->inhibitCount--;
if (d->inhibitCount == 0) {
d->maybeScheduleRepaint();
}
}
void RenderLoop::beginFrame()
{
d->pendingRepaint = false;
d->pendingFrameCount++;
}
void RenderLoop::endFrame()
{
}
int RenderLoop::refreshRate() const
{
return d->refreshRate;
}
void RenderLoop::setRefreshRate(int refreshRate)
{
if (d->refreshRate == refreshRate) {
return;
}
d->refreshRate = refreshRate;
emit refreshRateChanged();
}
void RenderLoop::scheduleRepaint()
{
if (d->pendingRepaint) {
return;
}
if (!d->pendingFrameCount && !d->inhibitCount) {
d->scheduleRepaint();
} else {
d->delayScheduleRepaint();
}
}
std::chrono::nanoseconds RenderLoop::lastPresentationTimestamp() const
{
return d->lastPresentationTimestamp;
}
std::chrono::nanoseconds RenderLoop::nextPresentationTimestamp() const
{
return d->nextPresentationTimestamp;
}
} // namespace KWin